A fairly common bad practice for many users is never turning off the computer. Firstly, we are wearing out components unnecessarily, even though they enter a state of low activity. In addition, we are consuming energy that is not doing any kind of work.
If we are not going to have it executing a task (file transfer, for example) there is no point in having it turned on. It is harmful to its components, to your pocket and to the environment. In the end, you waste energy on a system that sits there, boring.
Will I sleep worse with the computer on all night?
There really is no absolute answer, as is usual in computing. Yes, there are different considerations or aspects to take into account. But, above all, you must seek to obtain the best rest and, consequently, sleep possible. This is an important period where our body recovers after a day.
Maybe you don’t believe it, but having the computer on is the same or worse than having the smartphone nearby when you sleep. The reasons that can affect sleep by having the computer on are explained below
the happy little lights
This is the first aspect that can lead to a bad rest. The RGB lighting It only performs an aesthetic function, they have no practical function. Having the lighting on at night, when we play, is not the best, but it does not affect much either.
yes we It will affect when we go to sleep. You must bear in mind that people are biologically programmed to sleep when it gets dark and get up at daybreak. This is because electricity is a modern thing and rest cycles in the past were governed by the amount of sunlight.
Well, the RGB lighting at night makes us make it harder to fall asleep. Furthermore, it makes this be of poorer quality especially if we have RGB effects that change color. It supposes that we will rest worse, since we need by evolution the greatest possible darkness to rest properly.
fan noise
Any computer has fans to help dissipate heat. At least, we will have a pair: the one for the power supply and the one for the heatsink. Modern graphics cards when there is no load, usually stop cooling by entering 0 dB mode. Although it is normal have many fans, between 3-6 of these is usually normal.
Let’s assume that they are all PWM and rotate at minimum speed. Although it may seem that they do not emit noise, we really do listen to them. Having that sound all night can generate a poor quality sleep. But we can also get up with head color or other problems from having that constant noise at night.
heat generation
This aspect in winter is not exactly relevant, since it will hardly affect the temperature of our room. But in hot periodsespecially in summer, can increase the temperature of the environment. They can be 1-5 ºC, depending on the ambient temperature.
You must take into account the laws of physics and that is that no component can be below room temperature. If in our area at night we are at 22 ºC, this will be the minimum temperature of the components. Add about 10-15 ºC, since they are always above the temperature of the environment in that figure at rest.
In the end, the more heat, the lower quality is the rest. Therefore, having the computer on at night in summer causes us to sleep worse.
Conclusion
In short, having the computer on at night is stupid. What you do is worsen your rest and, in some cases, you could wake up with obvious physical problems. Also, today with SSDs, any computer takes less than 30 seconds to boot.
